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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Barbara W Tuchman |
| ISBN: | 034538623X 9780345386236 |
| OCLC Number: | 990524229 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962. With new foreword. |
| Target Audience: | 1350 |
| Description: | xxvi, 566 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Foreword / by Robert K. Massie -- Preface -- Author's Note -- A Funeral -- Plans. "Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with his Sleeve" -- The Shadow of Sedan -- "A Single British Soldier ..." -- The Russian Steam Roller -- Outbreak. Outbreak -- August 1: Berlin -- August 1: Paris and London -- Ultimatum in Brussels -- "Home Before the Leaves Fall" -- Battle. "Goeben ... An Enemy Then Flying" -- Liege and Alsace -- BEF to the Continent -- Sambre et Meuse -- Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons -- "The Cossacks Are Coming!" -- Tannenberg -- The Flames of Louvain -- Blue Water, Blockade, and the Great Neutral -- Retreat -- The Front Is Paris -- Von Kluck's Turn -- "Gentlemen, We Will Fight on the Marne" -- Afterword. |
| Responsibility: | Barbara W. Tuchman ; [with a new foreword by Robert K. Massie]. |
Abstract:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.
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